Description

Copyright 2012

Dimensions: 7" x 10"

Pages: 240

Edition: 1st

eBook (Watermarked)

ISBN-10: 0-13-273296-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-273296-3

Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. This new addition to the popular Non-Designer’s books from best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett uses a series of individual exercises to teach image-editing tasks in Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 specifically to designers, who need to enhance their photos for use in brochures, advertising, Flickr, Facebook, websites, and so on.

Basic photo editing, such as how to smooth out wrinkles, remove blemishes, lose a little weight, clean up dust and scratches, brighten and sharpen the image, delete people, remove or add space in the middle of a photo, and more

How to further manipulate and enhance images with filters and effects

How to draw and paint with customized brushes, and how to colorize a black-and-white image

All about layers and how to take advantage of them

How and when to use paths, layer masks, and clipping masks to increase your editing capabilities

How to merge several photos into one panorama, use the Puppet Warp feature, remove lens distortion, and much more

Whether you need to improve or edit your photos for your graphic design work or to upload to your Flickr or Facebook account, this book is the easiest path to mastering basic tasks in Photoshop.
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Sample Content

Table of Contents

1 What is Photoshop?A. An image editing tool; the advantages of raster filesB. A design creation toolC. Consider a tablet!Includes a chart with a list of projects indicating when you might use a word processor,InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, or other app for that particular project.

2 Quick Sample ProjectsThe sample projects allow readers to quickly and easily develop small design ideas usingthe basic tools; they provide an immediate interaction with the application and a feelingof empowerment. The projects also provide examples of typical sorts of projects for whichyou might use this particular application.A. Enhance a photoB. Get rid of things you don’t want in a photo (wrinkles, telephone wires, ex-husbands)C. Simple design project including photo, text, brush work

4 The Toolbars, Panels, and Screen ModesA. The Tools barB. The Options barC. The Application barD. Choose which panels to make visible (from the Window menu)Most users of the Adobe suite of products end up with at least InDesign, Photoshop,and Illustrator on their computers. This book is for those who might be power users ofIllustrator or InDesign, but are a bit lost in a raster-based image-editing application suchas Photoshop.This book includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach the toolsand ideas that Photoshop offers for [non]designers who need to enhance their photos foruse in brochures, advertising, Flickr, Facebook, web pages, etc. The individual exercisesensure that a reader can jump in at any point to learn a specific tool or technique. Textand graphic files will be provided on a Peachpit web page or an included cd so readersand instructors will have the assets available to work with. An “I need to . . .” list) willbe included with the table of contents, listing the most frequently needed tasks, such aslighten a photo, match the tones of a series of photos, match the face sizes on a series ofphotos, whiten the teeth, remove the wrinkles, extend an image, add more background,make it black-and-white, create a panorama view, etc.The Non-Designer’s Photoshop Book • John Tollett 2

17 Paths and MasksA. Paths and the Paths panels: Why to draw a path; how to draw a path;use the various Pen toolsB. Masks: Quick Mask; mask adjustmentsThe Non-Designer’s Photoshop Book • John Tollett 4

18 Channel paintingPull out colors you didn’t know were there

19 Save for Web & DevicesEasily save copies of files for the web or devices